[Benrand]

One of my guilty pleasures is a vid I have, a 2 *HOUR* vid, of Ric Flair's greatest promos...

That guy was one of a kind, and don't you forget it. I'm a fan myself of the Old School Horsemen. Loved all the dirty tricks and double crosses...

"It's so hard to be humble when you're looking as good as Ric Flair!"

"Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it's the one with the longest line."

"Diamonds are forever and so are the Horsemen!"

Double A: "There has been one rule of thumb all through professional wrestling that has always held true: When a burglar breaks into your house, you don't squirt him with a waterhose, you pick up something and you bash his brains out with it."

"Intense pain is a wonderful thing, Gene Okerlund. Your life flashes before your eyes, things that are the most important to you become crystal clear. You start to begin to learn the meaning of life. Last week when they stuffed me in that ambulance and I looked across and I saw Flair, Sting, Woman, Bagwell and myself, I realized that we were people brought together not by philosophy, but by necessity. And I started to think, new world order, new world order, where have I heard that? And I remembered in the Good Book it says, 'When the new world order is put into place it signals the beginning of the end of time.' Well, WCW is our world, it's where we live and breathe. And if you want to destroy it, Hogan and The Outsiders, you've already made a mistake that jumps off the page. If you're gonna take a baseball bat to a Horseman, finish the job. Because there's one rule of gang fighting. See, we are the original gang and we're the most vicious in all of professional wrestling history. They send one of yours to the hospital, you send two of theirs to the morgue."

[F.J. Mitchell]

And Inspector Callahan said: "Do you feel lucky, punk!-Do you?" It's all in the script. Wrestlers are actors and nothing else, except for one thing-they do their own stunts. I watch those like Jeff Hardy and Rick Van Damn to name a couple, abuse their bodies and risk their lives, over and over, for fame and maybe fortune if they live long enough and I am impressed. I am impressed that anyone can crave the spotlight or wealth that much and I'm ashamed that laws to protect people from their irresponsible selves, have apparently been rescinded or never existed. I cannot enjoy nor laugh at ladder or hardcore matches, even though I am aware that those garbage cans and lids can be dented by a marshmellow or crushed in the grip of some 98 year old grandma. I saw Jeff Hardy's head miss the bottom of one ladder by mere inches when thrown off another ladder. He was inches from death and I believe that it was the grace of God or maybe luck that spared his life, rather than the script and chorography.

No one can accuse these guys and gals of not being in great shape, very agile and tough as nails. We can doubt the sanity of participants in such near mayhem-least wise when they seek our support in becoming our leaders. Their lives are their's to waste, our right of existance is our's.